PLL announces Albany return for 2020 season
By Sports Staff
ALBANY, NY » The Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) announced today that the league will return to the University at Albany for its upcoming 2020 season. The PLL is scheduled to host an evening match-up on Friday, August 14 and a doubleheader on Saturday, August 15.
Games will take place for the second consecutive year at Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium. PLL is scheduled to come back to the University at Albany following the league’s second-ever sellout during its threegame weekend in 2019. Albany becomes another location announced for the upcoming season after Boston, Atlanta, New York, Baltimore, Dallas, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Portland and Raleigh. The weekend in Albany will see another triumphant return for former University at Albany stars and members of the school’s Men’s Lacrosse team including Connor Fields, Miles Thompson, Blaze Riorden, Troy Reh, and Kyle McClancy, amongst several others.
“After the resounding success of our 2019 weekend in Albany, we just as soon began to plan our 2020 schedule around a return to the city,” says PLL Co-Founder and CEO Mike Rabil. “We will look to scale this tentpole weekend to an even larger footprint for the upcoming season. Lacrosse is endemic to the people of Albany and we saw this firsthand as they packed the stands last summer. Upstate New York is an important place for our players, coaches, and fans of the sport. We’re going to put on another memorable show for everyone.”
“We are incredibly excited to once again host the PLL this summer,” said UAlbany Director of Athletics Mark Benson. “Last year showed what an incredible event the PLL weekend is for our community and we can’t wait to offer our loyal fans the experience for another season. Further, to see so many of our former players return to their original home field and play among the sport’s best makes the experience that much more special.”
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ » Another day, another major award for Siena Basketball standout Jalen Pickett. Two days after being named a unanimous First Team All-MAAC honoree – and one day after being tabbed a USBWA District II selection – the Rochester, New York native has been heralded as the 201920 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
Pickett joins La Salle legend Lionel Simmons (1987-88) as the only sophomores in the 39-year history of the MAAC to earn the conference’s Player of the Year Award. The 2019-20 MAAC Preseason Player of the Year, Pickett becomes the sixth Siena player to be named the MAAC Player of the Year joining Marc Brown
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(1990-91), Doremus Bennerman (1993-94), Kenny Hasbrouck (2008-09), Alex Franklin (2009-10), and Ryan Rossiter (2010-11). Siena’s six MAAC Player of the Year awards are second most in conference history (Iona – eight).
Also just the sixth nonsenior to ever be named MAAC Player of the Year and first since Monmouth’s Justin Robinson in 201516, Pickett won a leaguehigh three MAAC Player of
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